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All across the USA one will travail across bridges of all types, but very few will be of the covered bridges variety. They have a distinct link to the past and a romance about them. Have you ever wondered why bridges were built and then boxed in and covered? I found out the reasons for that and several other reasons why covered bridges became out of vogue in architecture. Now they are just historical in nature and not a necessary feature in modern bridges. Much of my inte

Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame & Museum, Hayward, Wisconsin Fishermen have told their tales of "the one that got away". Yet, in the north woods of Wisconsin there is a place that one can view the biggest, the best and the world records in fishing. The Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward, Wisconsin pays tribute to fresh water sport fishing and truly is an interesting place to visit. Even, if you are not an avid fisherman, which I am not....it still is well worth a

I don’t even like SPAM. As we were traveling through Minnesota on I-90, billboards for the SPAM museum caught our attention. A museum about SPAM?! Really? How on earth could an entire museum be dedicated to this lowly, culinary product? Yet, I’m here to say that believe it or not…the SPAM Museum is an entertaining stop off the highway. Many people react with the comment: "There's a SPAM Museum, seriously?" Yes, seriously. If you are passing through southern Minnesota, don

I can hardly look at these photos I took without cringing a little. Ewww...what creepy looking creatures. I have been told they are...

When I was a little girl, my family would go to upstate New York every summer to visit my mother's family. We stayed at my grandma's...

Just like Clark Griswold in the Christmas Classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, many of us enjoy the part of the season that...